The UK Independence Party is riding a “surge of momentum” and could win its
first Commons seat when voters in Eastleigh go to the polls today, Nigel
Farage declared.

The UKIP leader said that his party was on course for its best-ever result,
insisting that it was neck and neck with the Conservatives on about 27 per
cent of the vote, with the Liberal Democrats “a few pips ahead”. He added
that the party’s emphasis on Europe and immigration was drawing voters from
all the major parties, with about a third coming from the Tories and a third
from the